A conflicting romantic, mumblecore-like, comedy, with a frequently stirring mystery and flashes of Twilight Zone, wound around a Charlie Kaufman-like mystery-box, Charlie McDowell’s debut, The One I Love, turns expectations upside down, inside out, and then asks its audience it make sense out of it.When the camera first introduces Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss), they are just like any other couple: playful and full of potential, a kinship perhaps paralyzed by a rough past. From the outside, it is a cracked facade that has lost its smoothness over the years, the completion of a former whole whose broken pieces may have one day held their union together.
The emotionality that comes from the bonding of love and marriage can be as incomprehensible as trying to read a foreign language, with a definition that is too busy to compress down to something as familiarly and mentally definable as friendship.
The emotionality that comes from the bonding of love and marriage can be as incomprehensible as trying to read a foreign language, with a definition that is too busy to compress down to something as familiarly and mentally definable as friendship.
- 11/30/2014
- by Fiman Jafari
- SoundOnSight
Sandman Meditations – Worlds’ End: “Worlds’ End”
Worlds’ end and words’ ends; end as conclusion and end as purpose. We’ve reached the finishing line of this story arc, and the stories within stories reveal by the last page what seems to be their outer shell.
This conclusion does what the best conclusions do: it ties up some loose ends while heightening the overall sense of mystery. We might say we like stories that have clear, unambiguous endings, but do we? Depends on the we, I suppose. No-one who likes such endings is likely to last through many Sandman volumes.
If I may indulge in utter presumptuousness for a moment, I would bet that most people who like stories (and are there people who do not like stories?) don’t actually like neat and tidy stories, stories without a hint of remaining mystery. Such stories are fine when we just want...
Worlds’ end and words’ ends; end as conclusion and end as purpose. We’ve reached the finishing line of this story arc, and the stories within stories reveal by the last page what seems to be their outer shell.
This conclusion does what the best conclusions do: it ties up some loose ends while heightening the overall sense of mystery. We might say we like stories that have clear, unambiguous endings, but do we? Depends on the we, I suppose. No-one who likes such endings is likely to last through many Sandman volumes.
If I may indulge in utter presumptuousness for a moment, I would bet that most people who like stories (and are there people who do not like stories?) don’t actually like neat and tidy stories, stories without a hint of remaining mystery. Such stories are fine when we just want...
- 11/16/2011
- by Matthew Cheney
- Boomtron
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